To Nkoranza

Siobhan and Bronson were due in Akosombo on saturday. I was waiting at home the whole day, anxiously waiting for their call or for their line to go through. Unfortunately, I did not manage to get through to them the whole day. Weiliang called instead and shortly after that, I got a call to go out to the dressmaker's to try on my new dress. Sadly, it was way oversized. Fortunately, it was to be resized and ready for collection on Monday between 2 and 3 pm before we leave on the ferry. After getting home, Siobhan and Bronson called and all was well. We arranged to meet up at 11am on Sunday after church for canoeing and lunch at Aylo's Bay. A long awaited reuion!

Sunday was spent going to church in the morning and then Mr Kwakye sent me to Atimpoku to meet up with Siobhan and Bronson at the Benkum Motel before bringing us over to Aylo's Bay for canoeing. Now that was a joke. Obviously, we lacked quite a bit of 'connection' there, or it was simply cos we're just lousy at canoeing. Half of the time, we were going from one bank to another instead of going straight along the course of the riverflow. But we managed to get under the Adome Bridge linking Atimpoku to Ho and managed to get back in one piece, not having capsized at all, which was a miracle I think, having had us move about so much in the dug out canoe of sorts.
We had lunch after that and boy were Siobhan and Bronson excited at having non-Ghanian dishes as options again. I stuck to a Ghanian dish option. Still trying new things... Nyoma this time. Somewhat like a potato pumpkin stew... was nice... After lunch, we had to work it off and so, walked over the Adome bridge and voila! there was phone service!!! So Siobhan called to let Charles know we were fine. I managed to get on a tro tro and then a cab back home. Cost me only 10,000 instead of the usual 15,000. Yeah!

Monday morning was spent finishing up the stupid King book - Dreamcatcher... Went to the port to pay for our 312, 000 fare for first class cabin in the Yapei Queen and then it was off to the Volta Hotel to wait for my darlings... Siobhan and Bronson... So, more reading and getting bored by all the useless reports that repeat themselves over and over again the whole morning on Euronews. Siobhan and Bronson soon arrived and it was a long wait for 3pm... We had great hot chocolate and even better food... Yep, American chicken and chips again... the fifteen minutes before 3 was excruciating. I did not have Auntie Agatha's number and I didn't know if she was going to be there with my dress and I had her keys and we HAD to catch our ferry! Thankfully, she was there at 3 sharp and we managed to get a cab waiting just outside the hotel to take us to the port too...
Arriving there, we were early. We were told that the ferry would leave between 4-4.30pm but we didn't get on till after 5pm and had to pay an extra 5,000 each for our bags and got out hads stamped all blue.

On the ferry, all was well, the cabin was great and we had access to a locked loo... So it was rather luxurious... a 2 men cabin for 3. Bronson of course was the wonderful gentleman who took the floor... It wasn't bad. We had lots of time to read since the sun went down soon enough and soon proceeded to have cabin cooked spagetthi... Silly us didn't open the windows cos of the mossies and nearly died of the fumes. So we all had to end up feeding the mossies before we had our dinner. I'm not sure what happened soon after. I fell asleep at 9pm. Next morn, we got up at an alright time and spent the rest of the day walking around the deck, looking out at the lake, the trees all dead and bare and sticking out by the shore. Siobhan did wonderful watercolour paintings of the Kete Krachi stop and of the cabin. You have got to see it soon! I'll put it up on the blog when we get home. That's exactly 30 days more! Yeah, so the ferry ride was ok. Just rather disappointing when I realised that just one month ago, there was a Singaporean on board. Sigh. I'm not the first anymore.

Arriving in Yeji at around 10pm, Siobhan won the bet, beating me by 3 minutes. We were one of the last few to get off. It was super dark and it was horrid being hassled into getting into a cab and to the Volta Hotel for the night. We got hassled into one and soon found ourselves at the lousy hotel. Such a rip off at 70,000 a night for a room was poor lighting and a horrid fan and no net, no running water and well, horrid ok? for the price? What made it worse was that the next morn, we were conned into taking the lousy breakfast that was overpriced at 20,000 for tea and bread and this guy constantly trying to get me to change his Sing-dollar into cedis with me. Horrid reminder of the Singaporean who was here one month earlier.

The next morn was a nightmare trying to get to Nkoranza through Ejura being hassled by taxi drivers. We were out at 7.00am but only left Yeji for Ejura after 9am. The journey was long and bad. We ended up at Nkoranza all red and dusty. But we finally managed to find the Hand in Hand place and it was beautiful. I'll tell more in my next email. It's basically a school and home for mentally handicapped and disabled children that you guys should find out more about. It's not much to sponsor a child and you could make so much of a difference!

 

Anyway. today was spent at the Kintampo falls and the Baobeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary. It was a good day overall and boy are we looking forward to Techiman, Wenchi and Bui tomorrow! A lot of travel on the cards!

 

Take care everyone!

 

-Sheena

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